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Tony Burke

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Tony Burke is assistant general secretary of Unite; President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; a member of the TUC executive committee and general council, a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum, Trade Union co-ordinator for the Morning Star newspaper and chair of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom.  He writes for Left Foot Forward on international issues, trade, skills, and workers’ and union rights.
As well as LFF, he contributes to the Morning Star, TUC's Stronger Unions website, Unite Live, CSEU website and blogs at his own Power In A Union.

Corporate-led trade deals are coming to Britain – and unions have to be ready

Tony Burke
5 January, 2021 (3 weeks ago)

The Tories are trying to shut workers out of Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals, writes Unite’s Tony Burke.

Joe Biden

Biden’s pick for top labour cabinet job could have massive implications for US workers’ rights

Tony Burke
30 November, 2020

The big prize for US unions is who Biden will appoint as Secretary of Labor to replace arch-conservative Eugene Scalia.

Union movements: Potential UK-Norway trade deal must not be a race to the bottom

Tony Burke
23 November, 2020

Trade unions in UK and Norway have set out clear principles for a future trade agreement.

Trade deal

Big questions over UK’s economic future as the world’s biggest trade deal is signed

Tony Burke
16 November, 2020

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will create Asia’s largest free trade zone

Unions worry this ‘rushed’ UK trade deal could undermine labour standards in east Africa

Tony Burke
11 November, 2020

The UK government is pushing through trade deals before the Brexit transition period ends. But at what cost?

Employers and skills bodies back learning fund the Tories are trying to axe

Tony Burke
28 October, 2020

“The timing of this decision is bizarre in the extreme.”

Press

How unions are fighting to defend print media

Tony Burke
28 September, 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the massive change the printed media was already facing and with it a massive reduction of needed advertising streams.

Workers’ rights must not be compromised by any trade deal

Tony Burke Andrew Dettmer
21 September, 2020

British, New Zealander and Australian trade union leaders come together to argue that workers rights must be essential to any trade deal.

European unions are about to secure a major social justice victory

Tony Burke
4 September, 2020

Will the UK support a new minimum playing field for European wages – or try to undercut it?

Union Jack and European flag

A good EU-UK trade deal now looks impossible

Tony Burke
24 August, 2020

The clock is ticking. With a few months to go, Boris Johnson’s trade deal with the EU is as far away as ever.

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